B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion,
Haifa, Israel, in 1960;
Master degree in Physics from Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1965;
Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic
Institute of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY in 1965.
Before coming to UCLA, I worked at RCA Research Laboratories, Princeton, New
Jersey, on superconductive parametric and storage devices and at Electronic
Memories, Inc., Hawthorne, California, on advanced memory systems. I joined
UCLA in 1970.
My current interests are:
Artificial intelligence and knowledge representation
Probabilistic and causal reasoning
Nonstandard logics
Learning strategies
I have published a fair number of papers
in these areas, and authored 3 books:
Heuristics, Addison-Wesley, 1984
Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems, Morgan-Kaufmann, 1988
Purpose Prize
(2006) honoring seniors who take on "society's
biggest challenges," selected for creating the Daniel Pearl Dialogue
for Muslim-Jewish Understanding - a traveling public-dialogue program
that promotes respectful and honest exchange between Jews and Muslims.
UCLA Engineer, Faculty News (2004), "A Profile of Judea Pearl - Computer
Science Pioneer, Visionary"